The Emporia weekly news. [volume] (Emporia, Kan.) 1881-1889, 1887-08-18

did. They went into the cars when GhS
. fire was burning underneath and wheE
, the poor wretches were pinned there,
begged them for Gods sake to help
them out, stripped them of theiI
watches and jewelry and searched then
pockets for money. When the dead
bodies were laid. out in the corn field,
the hyenaS turned them over in their
search for valuables, and that the
J plundering was done by an organized
gang was proven by the fact that this
morning out in the corn field sixteen
purses, all empty, were found in one
heap. 1t was CHASTITY plundering and
had the plundererS been caught this
afternoon they would have surely been
lynehed.
VIEWING THE WRECK.
FOREST, H., Aug. 11.-About 5
O'Clock one of the Times staff was
driven out to the wreck. The drive
way led along to the left OF the rail
road, and to the south of the road was
an old-fashioned Usage orange hedge.
The road was very muddy and full of
| chuck holes. A stream of humanity
was pouring in from the wreck. Some
had checks in their hats and carried
valises. They were evidently pas
sengers on the Inflated train
Country boys and girls cane along
swinging hands and talking in low
| photographer dragged his weary limbs
along the track. He was carrying
camera and lot of negatives. The
road-bed was almost level, just little
grade running up to the wreck at a
rise of ten or fifteen feet to the mile.
About tWo-and-one-half or three miles
from the town on a little raise, was
the debris of the wreck.
The sleeping car Junis, was
at the end Of the train. 1t was lacked
in the air, supported by the trestle.
The front end of the car was directly
over the place where the bridge stood.
On the right lay a coach, all broken
into kindhng wood and directly on the
road was piled up what was
left of six or seven coaches
turned bottom side up, and broke
in front of the pile of debris,
was a coach, lying crosswise, at least
ten feet in the air. Beyond were the
two tenders, and one engine. One
tender was to the left of the track and
the other to the right. They were
turned bottom side up and rent asund-
er. The engine was scarcely recognize
c eGbe' was on t6e e ils ssGs OF hume Sne
Der 13-only big pane of glass
marked ''13." Along the hedge there
were Valises, shoes, boots, hatS-al
manner of articles of wearing apparel,
and broken lanterns and seats from the
cars. 1t was an awful sight. Hats of
men and women, broken and smeared
with blood, coats reeking with
gore, and ladies' underwear all
smeared with the life's blood. 1t
was plain to be seen from the looks of
the baggage that the travellers were
well-to-do people. sit was simply hor-
rible,'' said Mr.. Van Zandt, of Peoria,
to a reporter for the Times. ''No
words of mine can describe the awful
ness of the scene"
M'CLINTOCH's HORRIBLE DEATH.
The most horrible fate of all was
that of Eugene McClntock, engineer of
the second engine of the double-header.
The first engine, which Engineer
Switzerland was driving. passed over
the burning bridge IN safety, but it
was under its weight that the
half consumed bridge gave way, and
the tender dropped back into the dry
slough. SOutherland's engine kept the
rails and ran on in safety, such was the
awful speed of the unfortunate train.
McClintOck's engine plunged down
into the black hole, and as the ten
der mounted on top of the cab it
took McClintock in the back of the
neck and cut his neck clear off his
shoulders. The trunk was fou nd under
the engine, but the head could not be
discovered, and the presumption is
that it was ground to atoms in the hor
rible millstoneS of the engine and the
tender.
APATHETIC INCIDENT.
CHICAGO, Aug. 1.-There was one
incident of the accident, which stood
out more horribly than all OF those hor-
rible scenes. In the second coach was
a man, his wife and little child. His
name could not be learned, but it is
said he got on at Peoria. When the
accident occurred the entire family of
three was caught and held down by
broken woodwork. Finally when re-
lief came the man turned to his friends
and feebly said: Take out my wife
first. am afraid the child is dead"
So they carried out the mother, and, as
a broken seat was taken off her crushed
breast, the blood which welled from her
lips told how badly she was hurt. They
carried the child, fair-haired, blue
eyed girl of 8, and laid her in the corn
field, dead alongside of her dying
mother. Then they went back for the
father, and brought him out. Both his
through the corn to the side of his
wife and feeling her loved features in
the darkness, pressed some brandy to
her lips, and asked her how she felt.
A groan was the only answer, and the
next instant she died. He felt the
forms of his dead wife and child and
cried out, my God, there is nothing
more for me to live for now" and tax
ing pistol out of his pocket, pulled the
trigger. The bullet went surely through
his brain, and the dead bodies of that
little family are now lying side by side
in Chatsworth, waiting to be Identified.
A PASSENGER INTERVIEWED.
CHATswoRTH, Ills, Aug. 11.-Dr.
HaZen, of Madison, Iowa, says the
train was running about thirty miles
an hour when the accident occurred.
He felt sudden jar, and found him
self and wife fastened under the seats.
He pulled the backs off of two of the
seats before he could get his wife out.
She was bruised on the body and both
of her feet were crushed. Her shoulder
was dislocated and he had it pulled
into place as soon as he could get out of
the wreck. In helping others
he put it out of place again and had to
have it pulled into place second time.
There were nine persons in his party,
and he can only hear of three of them
SO far. He says he saw MIR. E. d.
Stoddard hand his boy out to lady,
while he crawled back to get his wife,
who was killed. The following are the
names of the wounded, as far as taken:
i THE WOUNDED.
E. w. Walker and wife, Peoria;
wounded in head and limbs.
Mrs. Emma Regain and son, Peoria;
slightly injured.
John Fry, Peoria; leg broken and
back injured.
II. T. Ogden, Greyton, ILL.,; head and
foot injured.
Florence E. Boucher, Bayard, Ia.
arm hurt.
Pat Brady. Gilman, Ill; foot and
head.
J Sophia Pauline, Peoria; head.
C. w. Young, West, Jersey; hands
w. s. Zank, West, Jersey; foot anC
shoulder.
} G. A. Scott, Toleana, H.; ankle.
Thomas, Trimmons, Park Ridge, Ill.
: arms and legs.
Theodore Godel, Peoria; head ant
Mrs. Edith CheIlow, Glassford, Ill.